IT Manager (DevOps) (m/f/x)

As IT Manager, you will lead a global team of DevOps engineers, providing leadership, coaching, performance management, and strategic direction while enabling the successful delivery of our cloud application portfolio. You will play a key role in shaping how we deliver scalable, reliable, and modern solutions, driving innovation while ensuring operational excellence across all environments.
In this role, you will partner closely with platform engineering teams, infrastructure architects, product owners, and key stakeholders to design and continuously enhance efficient CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices. You will establish clear direction, priorities, and governance to enable high-performing teams and consistent delivery outcomes.
You will also lead and develop the DevOps team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. By setting clear objectives and aligning team efforts with organizational goals, you will drive delivery excellence, improve operational efficiency, and ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes across the application lifecycle.
You will be responsible for creating a culture of trust, collaboration, accountability, and continuous development, ensuring clear goals, performance expectations, and career growth opportunities for team members.
In this leadership role, your impact will extend beyond technology. You will shape team culture, elevate performance standards, and drive meaningful business outcomes.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead, coach, and develop a global team of fifteen DevOps engineers distributed across multiple geographies, ensuring engagement, performance, career development, and successful delivery of strategic initiatives.
Develop and implement the DevOps and DevSecOps strategies, aligning them with the company's goals and objectives.
Establish and maintain best practices for infrastructure automation, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and release management.
Implement a Community of Practices (CoP), evangelizing best practices in different DevOps topics, such as deployment methods, branching strategies, etc.
Drive automation initiatives to streamline operational tasks, including infrastructure provisioning, release notes, configuration management, and deployment processes.
Implement and ensure DevOps metrics are met.
Implement strategy to reduce technical backlog.
Ensure DevOps guidelines are up-to-date.
Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
Establish team goals, KPIs, and performance metrics aligned with business objectives, ensuring consistent follow-up and accountability.
Manage employee performance, including coaching, development planning, performance improvement actions, and difficult people conversations when required.
Participate in recruitment of IT personnel.
Compliance with regulatory requirements, Security policies, and SOX related activities.
Manage team capacity, workload allocation, prioritization, and resource planning to ensure appropriate coverage and effective delivery.
Organize verbal and written ideas clearly and use an appropriate business style.
Provide regular updates to appropriate managers.
Assure that procedures and work instructions are efficient and not redundant.
Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet, and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively.
Confer with reporting manager on complex or unusual situations.
Ensure 100% adherence to all company policies and procedures.
Maintain discretion and confidentiality in all areas pertaining to data and proprietary information.
Ability to work effectively under pressure with changing priorities and deadlines.
Understand and embrace the business and IT strategic direction.
Understand business processes and business tools in the current environment.
Project management as required.
Organize 24/7 support with the team.
Build an inclusive and collaborative team culture across different countries, backgrounds, and working styles.
Establish development plans and career growth opportunities for team members, fostering long-term engagement and retention.
May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
Minimum of three plus (4+) years of experience as a Developer and/or DevOps Engineer.
Minimum of three to five years of direct people leadership experience, including performance management, conflict resolution, coaching, career development, goal setting, and team engagement.
Knowledge of DevOps tooling including Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Git.
Understanding of Branching Strategies (e.g., Git Flow, Trunk, etc.), Deployment Models (e.g., Canary, Blue/Green, etc.) and Feature Flagging
Experience driving change across organizations as it pertains to the culture of DevOps.
Understanding of monitoring and logging management solutions (e.g., Azure Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
Strong experience in software development methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.
Demonstrated leadership experience.
Project management experience.
Demonstrated experience managing distributed international teams across multiple geographies and cultures.
Proven experience establishing KPIs, team objectives, workload management processes, and performance measurement frameworks.
Interpersonal skills in working with management and technical teams in a self-starter role.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong attention to detail.
About us:
PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD®
Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @PPG on X.
The PPG Way 2030
We are customer champions
Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen, move fast and don’t stop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win, we all grow.
We act with purpose and speed
Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility, using quality data to develop solutions that create value.
We are excellent operators
Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role, we identify problems, take ownership and always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support our frontline, the faces of PPG to our customers.
We compete to win
Future-focused. Driven. Ambitious. We are passionate about growing our business and winning with our customers. We deliver results, embrace new technologies and leverage agility and speed as strengths.
We are PPG proud
Strong. United. Passionate. We work safely, act with integrity and value our diverse perspectives. We celebrate achievements and take pride in the positive impact we create together to protect and beautify the world.
At PPG we use AI in the hiring process to make the process more efficient. AI tools do not make hiring decisions. You can learn more by going to https://careers.ppg.com/us/en/candidate-resources.
PPG provides equal opportunity to all candidates and employees. We offer an opportunity to grow and develop your career in an environment that provides a fulfilling workplace for employees, creates an environment for continuous learning, and embraces the ideas and diversity of others. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
If you need an adjustment due to a disability, please email recruiting@ppg.com.
PPG pay ranges and benefits can vary by location which allows us to compensate employees competitively in different geographic markets. PPG considers several factors in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, qualifications and education, licensure and certifications, and other organizational needs. Other incentives may apply.
Our employee benefits programs are designed to support the health and well-being of our employees. Any insurance coverages and benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process.
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Skills
Git, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, Project Management, Agile